When we think about living our “Best Life,” I am sure no one thinks about disease. Nonetheless, in the past few years diseases have been taking lives in record breaking numbers.
My heart is heavy right now thinking about the process of watching someone slowly reaching their end as they decay into the abyss. It’s like watching great big bubbles dance away in the air. It’s a delightful feeling as you continue to blow more and more bubbles with so much enthusiasm. Then you watch the soap filled silhouettes fade away in the direction of the wind or immediately pop right in front of you. Life taken away seems to happen in that fashion. It’s not something we get use to. Every time death happens it’s like someone died for the first time in your life.
Right now, my heart is heavy dealing with the sad news of one of my siblings who is in a great deal of pain. As the condition worsens it is disheartening to know the rate of cancer spreading all over the body is irreversible. The end is closer than we could have imagined. How does one prepare for this?
With outstretched hands, I pray for strength for my entire family to be able to let go of the hurt and disappointment of how we thought this was going to pan out. It did not go as we anticipated and that is just God’s will. We must accept the fact that life here on earth is not eternal in the flesh.
Life is too short to hold on to things that are irrelevant. Life is too short to be mad at people who are sleeping fine at night with no thoughts of you on their mind. Life is too short to stop dreaming. Life is too short to stop living.
Remember to smile often. Tell people you love them. You don’t know the last time you will see that person again. Live your life with love in your heart. Life is just too short.